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The fine art of tv: Season 2

So, true detective started again, and boy howdy is it a sloppy mess of a show. I'm still interested in the plot after 2 episodes, but everything from pacing, character development, dialog, and even the editing for this show feels sloppy, especially compared to season 1.

@ManateeMaster Amazon holds streaming rights and according to Bryan Fuller, they won't let Netflix take them. So Amazon is going to have to step up, especially now that Mads and Darcy's contracts expired.

Look I'm a pretty progressive guy and I hate everything that the Confederate flag stood for as a person who isn't crazy. That being said we have to stop with unilateral policies designed to erase history. People are smart enough to watch a dumb fucking show and put it into context that this isn't a new thing. TV Land isn't endorsing racism by keeping the show on and they're not stopping it by pulling it.

All in the Family is just as offensive in a modern context and nobody is calling for that show to be pulled.

John Oliver's takedown of sports stadiums was great, but there's no way any of that is ever changing. As long as there are cities to threaten a move to, it'll always be owners holding municipalities hostage.

hooray another reason for me to despise the way this country's fixation on sports culture allows for the infrastructure around it to ruin regular peoples lives. it's just ridiculous to me the things we allow countless sports organizations to get away with (FIFA being the biggest example obviously) just because people can't separate themselves from a stupid game. if enough people boycotted events from these organizations then something could be done but there just aren't a lot of sports fans in the world that care enough to do that apparently

I think "ruining people's lives" is a bit hyperbolic at least when we're talking about North America. While it's true that the costs far outweigh the benefits in a lot of cases, it's possible that these huge infrastructure projects have actually had tangible benefits in the cities they inhabit. Indianapolis and Columbus are two cities off the top of my head that developed fantastic entertainment districts around their gigantic public works.

that value proposition is non-existent when it's applied to suburban locations.

owners should be footing the bill, no doubt... but it just doesn't work that way in most cases.

"I think "ruining people's lives" is a bit hyperbolic at least when we're talking about North America" maybe so but the stats Oliver pointed out for Cincinatti (a public hospital closing, 1700 jobs lost, not paying public schools for a stupid stadium) are proof enough that the fact that we allow these corporations to control municipalities like that are ultimately destructive and super-not-good

seriously though look at how the coyotes fans fucked things up in arizona...as angry as the NFL, MBA, NHL, pretty much every pro sports organizations make me, there should be a priority on sports fans to stop being a drone to their stupid teams and realize when what they are doing is hurting their communities and need to be reigned in. that the vast majority of sports fans aren't loudly livid about stuff like this is partially what helps it continue